Change of Address Malaysia 2026: The Full Checklist

The boxes are unpacked, the internet is working, and the new place finally smells like yours. Then a letter arrives at the old address that nobody forwards, and it turns out to be from a department you have not thought about in years. Alamak. Moving house in Malaysia is not one address change. It is seven or eight of them, each at a different counter, on a different clock, and none of the offices tells the next one anything.

Two of those clocks are written into federal statutes, with an offence attached. One of them is the opposite of what almost everyone assumes: updating the address on your identity card does not move your vote. And the thing most people expect to be a quick counter update turns out, in the department’s own words, to be a card replacement.

Quick Answer: change the address on your MyKad at any National Registration Department counter once you will be living at the new place for 90 days or more, which costs RM10.00 for a citizen because a new card is issued. Then notify the Road Transport Department within two months under section 58A of the Road Transport Act 1987, and Inland Revenue within three months under section 89 of the Income Tax Act 1967 using form CP600B. If you want to vote where you now live, that is a separate application on Borang A to the Election Commission.

• Start here: JPN first. The electoral roll step specifically wants the JPN receipt before it will act, and MyKad is the reference document most other counters ask for anyway.
• Bring: your identity card in original, plus one proof of the new address — a utility bill, assessment tax, the sale and purchase agreement or the tenancy agreement, original or certified copy.
• Three different clocks: JPN sets a 90-day residence trigger, the Road Transport Act sets two months, the Income Tax Act sets three. They do not run together.
• Catch: the electoral roll is not updated by the MyKad change. A registered voter stays at the old address until they file Borang A themselves.

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The 90-Day Trigger, and Why It Costs RM10.00

The rule behind the MyKad address change is regulation 15 of the National Registration Regulations 1990. Both the National Registration Department and the MyGovernment portal state it the same way: a card holder who moves to another place of residence and will stay there for a period of 90 days or more must change the address on the identity card. Read that carefully, because it is not a countdown that starts on moving day. The trigger is the length of the stay, not the time since the lorry left.

The department publishes no separate deadline, counted in days, for actually making the application, and no penalty figure appears on any of its pages. Figures do circulate online. They are not on the JPN pages, so they are not printed here.

What the department does publish is a set of conditions that quietly rules out the easy options. You have to go to a counter in person — the page gives no online channel. The address must be a permanent residential address in Malaysia, and the page says outright that a workplace, office, organisation address or post office box is not allowed. An applicant under 18 must come with a parent or guardian. Bring the identity card in original, and one document proving the new address: an electricity, water, sewerage or utility bill, property assessment tax, an income tax assessment form, a sale and purchase agreement, a tenancy agreement, or a supporting document from a Penghulu, village head, Tuai Rumah, ADUN, Member of Parliament, employer or the Malaysian Armed Forces. Original or certified copy.

Then the fee, which is where the misunderstanding lives. The payment section lists one thing only: change of address requiring issue of a new identity card, RM10.00 for a citizen and RM40.00 for a non-citizen. There is no cheaper line for an address change without a new card, and the department’s own FAQ explains why. Asked whether the address can be changed without changing the card, it answers that there is no change of address on the identity card chip without the issuance of a replacement card. The Malay title of the service says the same thing more bluntly than the English one: Permohonan Gantian Tukar Alamat Kad Pengenalan — an application for replacement on change of address. The counter transaction is close to a MyKad replacement for a lost or damaged card, since both end in a new card being issued.

How long it takes depends on where you go. JPN says a MyKad can be completed within 30 minutes for applicants collecting at NRD Headquarters or at offices with distributed printing machines, and otherwise 5 working days in Peninsular Malaysia and 7 working days in Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan, for unproblematic applications. Appointments can be booked beforehand at mytemujanji.jpn.gov.my, which the department encourages. Payment is not cash only: credit card, debit card and MEPS are accepted.

Editor’s Note: the timing of this one matters in 2026. JPN’s FAQ, read on 17 September 2026, says the New Generation MyKad is proposed to be issued in phases starting on 17 September 2026, that 40 listed branches can print it the same day while branches without printing facilities take 5 working days, and that the Touch ’n Go facility is no longer provided in it. An address change issues a new card, so if you are moving around now, the card you walk out with may not be the card you walked in with.

Two Months for JPJ, Three Months for LHDN

These two are the ones with a statute behind them, and they are the two people forget.

Section 58A of the Road Transport Act 1987 says that every registered owner of a motor vehicle or holder of a driving licence who changes his address in Malaysia shall, within two months of such change, serve on the Director a written notice of the change of address. One notice covers both records: subsection (4) says the Director updates the register of motor vehicles under section 8 and the register of driving licence holders under section 27A. So a person who owns a car and holds a licence does this once, not twice.

Subsection (2) is worth reading slowly. If the notice is not served within the period, the person is deemed to have not informed the Director at all. Late is not late. Late is nothing. And subsection (5) makes it an offence both to contravene subsection (1) and to provide an incomplete or inaccurate address. The Act sets no special penalty for that offence, which means the general one in section 119(2) applies: on a first conviction, a fine not exceeding RM2,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, and on a second or subsequent conviction, a fine not exceeding RM4,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 12 months or both.

The awkward part is the how. Subsection (3) defines service as personal delivery with an acknowledgement of receipt, prepaid registered post with a written acknowledgement under the Post Office Rules 1947, or facsimile with an acknowledgement stating the notice was sent entirely to the receiver’s facsimile number. All three are paper-shaped. The MyJPJ app page, modified 13 May 2026, lists what the app does — checking motor vehicle licence and driving licence expiry, vehicle details, summons status, MyDigital ID login, finding a branch, links to JPJeBid and JPJeQ, a chatbot and a guest mode — and a change of address is not among them. Neither of JPJ’s two published fee tables, for driving licence transactions and for vehicle registration and licensing, carries a change-of-address line at all. The practical reading is that this is a counter errand, and that no fee for it has been published. Do it while you are already there renewing something, whether that is road tax or renewing a driving licence.

Inland Revenue runs on a longer clock and a specific form. Section 89 of the Income Tax Act 1967 says every person chargeable to tax who changes his address in Malaysia, being an address furnished by him to the Director General, for another address in Malaysia shall within three months inform the Director General of the change by notice in the prescribed form. The prescribed form is CP600B, the Notification of Change of Address Form, prescribed under section 152 of the Act. It is a single page: name, reference number, income tax number, the new correspondence address, a tick box if that address belongs to your tax agent, and a signed declaration.

HASiL’s own Review and Update page, modified 26 June 2026, widens the list beyond the address: contact number, marital status and a change of tax agent should be reported too, and it advises telling HASiL immediately. The address goes on CP600B; the rest go by letter with supporting documents, through e-Kemaskini online, or through the feedback form. To see what address they currently hold, e-Lejar displays the registered address along with the bank account details HASiL has on file. Keeping that current also matters for your e-Filing.

Section 120(1)(d) of the same Act says any person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes section 89 is guilty of an offence, and the closing words set the penalty: on conviction, a fine of not less than RM200 and not more than RM20,000, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both. That is the law as written. What any particular office does about a late CP600B is a different question, and not one this article can answer for you.

Your Vote Does Not Move With Your MyKad

This is the one that catches people, and it catches them years later, on polling day, standing in the wrong state.

Since 15 December 2021, new voter registration in Malaysia is automatic. The Election Commission registers citizens aged 18 and above who are resident in a constituency, which it defines as having a residential address registered with the National Registration Department, and it says plainly that a voter’s constituency is determined by the latest residential address at JPN. Read only that sentence and you would conclude that changing your MyKad address moves your vote.

It does not, and the Commission’s own FAQ explains why. Under Article 119(4) of the Federal Constitution, if a registered voter makes no application to change polling centre, the name stays listed at the original address where they registered, even though the address in the identity card has in fact been changed. Regulation 12(2) of the Elections (Registration of Electors) Regulations 2002 then allows the Commission to change a registered voter’s polling address only if the voter applies and has completed the prescribed Borang A. The automatic rule builds the roll for people joining it. It does not move people already on it.

The order is fixed: change the address at JPN first, then take the change-of-address receipt JPN issues to the Election Commission and file Borang A. Applications can go in online at myspr.spr.gov.my, at the Election Commission headquarters, at any State Election Office, at post offices nationwide, or through an Outreach programme. Nothing happens instantly. The application is processed and checked, and the voter is only certified for the new constituency once the monthly Additional Electoral Roll carrying the change is gazetted.

Then check that it worked. Each certified Additional Electoral Roll is open for inspection for 30 days from the date the certification notice is gazetted, and you can look yourself up through MySPR Semak, the Commission portal, the state election office portals, or the hotline 03-8892 7218. If your name is missing or the constituency is wrong, a claim on Borang C carries no fee. An objection is the other direction and is not free: Borang D costs RM10 for each person objected to, capped at 20 people in the same constituency, and has to be filed in person at the State Election Office during office hours.

EPF, the Meters, and the Letters Still Going to the Old House

The Employees Provident Fund keeps a correspondence address, and the published route to change it is form KWSP 3 (Pindaan), Amendments to Member’s Particulars. Part B of the form carries the correspondence address with postcode and state. A Malaysian citizen attaches the form plus a copy of the MyKad, MyTentera or Police Authority Card, or a verification letter for a public identity card, and a statutory declaration if necessary. The KWSP i-Akaun app lists updating your profile among the things it can do, without naming which fields, so the form is the route the Fund actually publishes.

If you are going the form route, the instruction page is unusually specific about how forms get bounced: block letters, black or blue ink, no correction fluid or tape anywhere on the form or the supporting documents, A4 paper, no staples, and the front and back of the identity document copied onto the same page. Thumbprints are affixed on the form itself. Get one of those wrong and the trip is wasted.

Electricity and water are not address changes at all. They are changes of account holder, and each one carries its own regulator-set deposit with its own refund rule. The full walkthrough — TNB’s Change of Tenancy, the water operator for each state, and the exact deposit tables — is in our electricity and water account guide.

Banks, insurers and telecommunications companies each keep their own record and each has its own channel, usually inside the app or online banking. There is no central switch, and no figure worth printing, because they differ by company; check each provider’s own website.

Editor’s Note: on redirecting the post, there is nothing to report. As checked on 17 September 2026, Pos Malaysia publishes no mail redirection or change-of-address service on its mail service pages or in its Mail FAQ. What it does sell is a box to collect at: a PO Box, registered by downloading the form and submitting it at a post office that offers the service, costs RM50.00 a year for an individual and RM250.00 commercial; a Window Delivery Ticket is RM150.00. One oddity on that same page: the Locked Bag is RM250.00 in the main table and RM200.00 in the Locked Bag panel lower down. Two prices, one page. Ask at the counter before you assume either.

The Whole Thing on One Page

Where a cell says the official page does not list it, that is exactly what it means: the figure is not published, not that it is zero.

Walaoeh Verdict

Do JPN first, then set two reminders. The identity card is the upstream record: the Election Commission specifically wants the receipt from it, and it is one of the documents most other counters ask for. The two reminders are for the two statutory clocks this guide can confirm turn into offences — two months to notify the Road Transport Department, three months to send CP600B to Inland Revenue. Put them in the calendar on moving day, not later, because they are exactly the sort of errand that gets pushed behind unpacking and then forgotten for a year.

Then take the electoral roll seriously as a separate job, not a side effect. It is the one item on this list where doing everything else correctly still leaves you registered in the wrong place, and you can check your own entry any time through MySPR Semak or the hotline rather than waiting for polling day. The rest — EPF, the meters, the bank, the phone company — is not confirmed to carry the same offence risk as JPJ and LHDN, but the water account has a sting worth respecting: a generated bill left unpaid for more than 3 days kills the application and forfeits the account number, which means starting over. Rules, fees and thresholds move; the sensible habit is to open the agency’s own page on the day you go, rather than trusting any list, including this one, to still be current.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sources

Every page below was read on 17 September 2026. Statute texts were taken from the PDFs published by the responsible ministry or agency.

• National Registration Department — Application to Change Identity Card Address (conditions, documents, fees)
• Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara — Permohonan Gantian Tukar Alamat Kad Pengenalan, the Malay version of the same page
• National Registration Department — Identity Card FAQ (replacement card rule, timings, New Generation MyKad, payment methods)
• MyGovernment — Address Change on MyKad, the whole-of-government restatement of regulation 15
• MyTemujanji — the JPN appointment system
• Ministry of Transport — Road Transport Act 1987 [Act 333], sections 58A and 119
• Road Transport Department — driving licence transaction fee table
• Road Transport Department — vehicle registration and licensing fee table
• Road Transport Department — the MyJPJ app and its published functions
• HASiL — Income Tax Act 1967 [Act 53], sections 89 and 120
• HASiL — Review and Update, individual taxpayers (e-Lejar and e-Kemaskini)
• HASiL — form CP600B, Notification of Change of Address
• Election Commission — voter registration, change of constituency, inspection and objection
• Election Commission — general FAQ, including Article 119(4) and regulation 12(2)
• MySPR — the online channel for Borang A
• EPF — member forms, including KWSP 3 (Pindaan)
• EPF — form KWSP 3 (Pindaan) with its submission rules
• TNB — Change of Tenancy, channels and why it matters
• Air Selangor — Change of Ownership and reapplication
• Air Selangor — the step-by-step guide, documents and the payment window
• Air Selangor — Close an Account and the deposit refund
• Pos Malaysia — PO Box and other postal services, with the two Locked Bag prices
• Pos Malaysia — Mail FAQ, where no redirection service appears

Enquiries. National Registration Department: e-Enquiry through SISPAA at jpn.spab.gov.my, customer service 03-8000 8000, email [email protected], fax 03-88808288. Election Commission registration hotline: 03-8892 7218. TNB careline: 1300-88-5454, [email protected]. One note on sourcing: the National Registration Regulations 1990 were not read as a gazette text, so regulation 15 is quoted here only as the National Registration Department and the MyGovernment portal state it on their own pages.